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SYSK 91: Cool Trick -- Move an Entire Paragraph with a Key Stroke

The other day, I accidentally discovered an easy way to move a line (or number of selected lines) up or down in your Word document…

 

Say, you had a bullet point or a paragraph (or any other selected text) that you wanted to move up or down within a document.  All you have to do is press Shift+Alt and then Up or Down Arrow (depending on whether you want to move it up or down).  You don’t even have to select it first!

 

Try it for yourself.  Pretty cool!

 

Published Monday, March 27, 2006 5:14 AM by irenak

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# re: SYSK 91: Cool Trick -- Move an Entire Paragraph with a Key Strike

Monday, March 27, 2006 8:50 AM by BlakeHandler
OK, I must admit your "trick" is VERY cool Now, the question is: Will I remember?! (^_^)

# re: SYSK 91: Cool Trick -- Move an Entire Paragraph with a Key Strike

Monday, March 27, 2006 8:52 AM by Eldar Radovici
Very cool - which got me thinking about ALT's usage. Using ALT w/ your mouse, you can select ranges and copy/cut/paste/etc., the selection. I've seen this years before w/ other text editors, but not w/ word or visual studio. You may have already known that, but I didn't - now that's useful!

# re: SYSK 91: Cool Trick -- Move an Entire Paragraph with a Key Strike

Monday, March 27, 2006 10:19 AM by Pranav Wagh
One more word trick, Alt+Shift and try selecting the text..its good...:)

# re: SYSK 91: Cool Trick -- Move an Entire Paragraph with a Key Strike

Monday, March 27, 2006 1:42 PM by srinivas
really cool trick ,and best of it easier to remember (4 me )

# Madd0’s Tech Blog » Blog Archive » Word tip: Move a paragraph with one keyboard shortcut

# re: SYSK 91: Cool Trick -- Move an Entire Paragraph with a Key Stroke

Saturday, July 19, 2008 6:16 PM by Eldar

Good point Blake; I forgot this one. Remembered what the short-cut was but didn't use it; curious to know if I had a reason to?

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